Color Carbon

Learning to make a balanced tissue set for carbon printing is quite a
challenge. When I first started to work with carbon I was only
interested in color and spent three or four years working almost
exclusively in color. And I have four or five very nice prints to
show for my efforts!! I did have a big jump start on the tissue
because Richard Kauffman, who later collaborated in the creation of
Ultrastable materials, provided me with his own formula for
three-color tissue. However, the process of balancing separations
with wet processing was a very formidable task.

If I were to balance another color set it would probably be easier to
first balance it for carbro, then adjust sensitizer and exposure for
carbon. But I am so much into monochrome photography now that I
probably will not do color again. But I do have a nice Devin 5X7
tri-color camera that only needs a new pellicle and calibration to be
on line and I am very tempted to resurrect the beast to do some
historical type color printing.

Sandy King

At 2:03 PM -0800 12/27/06, Eric Scott wrote:
>Dick,
>
>I tried to make a 3-color carbon this time last year using the triple
>transfer process and a step wedge. I spent 3 months trying to
>balance my tissues so that the step wedge printed neutral. I failed
>and burned myself out completely. I put all my carbon stuff away.
>Now I'm back at monochrome after having recovered. One day I will go
>at it again. This time I will forget about step wedges. I'll make
>contone balanced separation negatives and manufacture my tissues in
>such a way that I get a print that isn't too horrible to look at.
>When I make just one print this way, I will then make the seps
>digitally in photoshop and buy your 3-color tissue on a regular basis.
>
>Eric.
>
>On Dec 27, 2006, at 12:12 PM, Richard Sullivan wrote:
>
>> Much of the pressure at the moment is for color tissue and that is
>> our
>> next hurdle to cross. We have a Color Carbon Study Group which will
>> meet
>> until June and we will be working with Russell Lees 4x5 Pietown, NM
>> Kodachromes from 1940. We decided it would be a bit unwieldy to
>> each do our
>> own images, so working on one set or one image is a bit more
>> practical.
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